Yes. There’s no oversight, whoever puts the money has the influence. US, China, EU, Canada, Australia, etc. We need to move away from the idea of funding being separable from influence. About anything. The economic dimension isn’t separate from the political one. It’s a myth we are told that’s served to further the interests of capital against the rest of us. If any country or block wants the influence we/they can put up the money.
What these articles always seem to breeze over is that China’s strategy towards Taiwan has historically been economic, not military. Chinese businesses have been buying up Taiwanese capital since 2014. Taiwanese businesses have been integrated into the Chinese export markets for even longer. FoxConn - the notorious manufacturing company for US and Japanese electronics - is one of Taiwan’s largest firms, but primarily employs Chinese workers in and around Hong Kong.
This is really poorly understood by most because of “the fearmongering [reporting] around China as a military threat never seems to touch their economic sphere of influence.” Which I’m guessing is done in part due to the defusing effect economic coverage would have. It’ll beg questions like - why are we sabre rattling if those guys are already so deeply enmeshed with China? It puts the possibility of military invasion on a similarly shaky footing as the US invading Canada.
The WHO is losing staff today due to lack of funding. That is “a bad ending.” If someone can put up the money in short order to stop that bad ending, it’s better one. China can do that. If a stronger democracy can do it so we can have more good endings down the road, they should. I’m not optimistic.
I saw a short interview with him by France 24 and he mainy said he thinks the current direction of the research teams at Meta is wrong. He made a contrast between top-down push to deliver org as opposed to long leash, leave the researches to experiment with things. He said Meta shifted from the latter to the former and he doesn’t agree with the approach.
Also he thinks LLMs are a dead end for getting smarter AI while Zuck is doubling down on them.
ZFS. It runs on whatever RAM you give it.
China gotta step in.
The organization has already transitioned to a nonprofit in the U.S. but is still working to set up a nonprofit in Belgium, or an AISBL, to replace the German entity, which lost its nonprofit status last year. Once established, the Belgian nonprofit will be the future home of the organization. In the meantime, the U.S.-based 501©(3) c nonprofit will own the trademark and other assets.
Very important step.
Wait so is this about the app catalog? Because Rebble appears to be MIT-licensed open source, which means Eric can fork it and use it, even not contribute his changes back.
Either way I think we deserve some response from Eric on this.
Only if Trump lands in Venezuela for the talks and sits next to Maduro at all times.
Or a Zoom call.
As someone who’s done cloud infrastructure professionally, this is the right way to make a project for setting up self-hosted applications. Not writing a bunch of bash scripts and putting them behind some web UI. We have well established infrastructure/config-as-code systems that are the gold standard which runs most clouds out there. Ansible is one of them. That’s the right tool for this job and a ton of professionals understand it and therefore can easily contribute improvements for the ones who don’t to use. I’m unfortunatrly invested in SaltStack but I wouldn’t feel worried to deploy a (well reviewed) project built on Ansible. Then slap a web UI on it if you like but that should be another project that hooks uses this one.
This is much needed.
The joint company was formed to redevelop the site of the Serbian armed forces headquarters in Belgrade, which was bombed by Nato in 1999. The plan provoked protests in the city centre.
Serbian national pride has entered the chat.
People are lead to believe that the FA extends to all facets of their lives. I think that’s one of the reasons why they let corporations get away with so much deregulation. People often don’t realize how much less responsibility corporations have than them for the same actions. I still get shocked pikachu faces when I tell people what limited liability is and they ask how is this shit legal.
Corporations aren’t people and they don’t act in ethical manner you might expect. Any corporate action that isn’t furthering its profits one way or another should be considered a coincidence or a mistake. Very few firms, typically smaller, private, and or with special ideological predisposition fall outside.
He is already elected.
Err, that’s not true on the last fee devices I’ve used, Pixels and a Fairphone. Installing apps from APK files doesn’t require me to enable dev options. In fact trying to install an APK from say Files brings me straight to the permission setting. It’s also per-app. It can be accessed under Settings > Apps > Special app access > Install unknown apps.
Countdown to invading Venezuela has started.
Good point. Context
Yes.